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The Oregon Tea Party's latest project is a bus. The anti-tax movement has been given a former city bus by a donor, and is using it to drive canvassers into contested House districts to stump for conservative candidates."We had a bus donated that we decorated with Tea Party memorabilia that we're using to get out the vote," says Jeff Reynolds, a member of the Oregon Tea Party leadership council. "We ...
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Can public campaign finance be revived in Portland?

City Hall
Four months after Portland voters killed public financing
of political campaigns for city office, a small cadre of supporters is
organizing to bring the issue back.
They
got the OK last month from
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A measure that would allow online voter registration in Oregon has passed the state Senate. The measure, House Bill 2386, was approved Monday by the Senate and has already been approved by the House. But it must now return to the House for approval of several small amendments. Henry Kraemer, political coordinator of the Oregon Bus Project, says HB 2386 is "the logical next step in moving forward ...
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